[dm-devel] [PATCH v3] virtio_blk: add VIRTIO_BLK_F_LIFETIME feature support

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Wed, Dec 07, 2022 at 05:21:48AM -0500, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> Christoph you acked the spec patch adding this to virtio blk:
> 
> 	Still not a fan of the encoding, but at least it is properly documented
> 	now:
> 
> 	Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst.de>
> 
> Did you change your mind then? Or do you prefer a different encoding for
> the ioctl then? could you help sugesting what kind?

Well, it is good enough documented for a spec.  I don't think it is
a useful feature for Linux where virtio-blk is our minimum viable
paravirtualized block driver.